Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia by Julia Kristeva

Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia

Julia Kristeva with Leon S. Roudiez (Translator)

300 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In Black Sun, Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who per...

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